What is the meaning of Vstorage % metric?

hey guys. i'm looking at the metrics for a number of VMs. A number of my VMs should be identical (Citrix VDI), but the vstorage % for those machines vary greatly. IE. some are at 99 %, some are just 20, etc. What is the significance of this metric and do you know why it would vary that much? I highly doubt some of the users are actually filling up their drives for their VDI. thanks.

vStorage % is the amount of used storage divided by it's total allocated storage. You can check out the "Resources" window for a VM to see the details of what each drive is consuming for resources. This is the same information you'll find in the guest OS. Have you checked to see within the guest to confirm VMTurbo values? If you can provide a screenshot of the VM in VMTurbo I can help point out the values that are worth looking at.

Here are the details for one of my VMs where I can see the C:\ drive info:

vStorage % is the amount of used storage divided by it's total allocated storage. You can check out the "Resources" window for a VM to see the details of what each drive is consuming for resources. This is the same information you'll find in the guest OS. Have you checked to see within the guest to confirm VMTurbo values? If you can provide a screenshot of the VM in VMTurbo I can help point out the values that are worth looking at.

Here are the details for one of my VMs where I can see the C:\ drive info:

that makes sense. and i double checked some of the machines in question, and lo and behold, they really were low on space. not sure how, but at least this reporting feature is accurate. now my next question is, is there a way to send an alert, or show something on the dashboard if a VM goes above a certain threshold, like 90%?

For "Increment Constant for VStorage" change this to a value you would typically increase a VM's storage by. (Since the default value is 9999999 this prevents VMTurbo from making recommendations to increase vStorage because there likely aren't any datastores that have 999999GB of capacity to give to a VM.)

So if the goal is to just get notified when a VM is running out of space, make this value something small, like 10GB. Then scroll down and click "Apply". In the next 10-15 mins you should start to see notifications on all the VMs that are running out of disk space.